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Wikipedia: William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536) was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who, influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, translated considerable parts of the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. While a number of partial and complete Old English translations had been made from the seventh century onward, and Middle English translations particularly during the 14th century, Tyndale's was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535, Tyndale was arrested, jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year, tried for heresy and burned at the stake.
![[William Tyndale, before being strangled and burned at the stake, cries out, "Lord, open the King of England's eyes"]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Foxe_27s_Book_of_Martyrs_Tyndale_s.jpg "William Tyndale, before being strangled and burned at the stake, cries out, \"Lord, open the King of England's eyes\"")
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![[The beginning of the Gospel of John, from Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tyndale_Bible_Gospel_of_John_s.jpg "The beginning of the Gospel of John, from Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament")
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![[Sculpted Head Of William Tyndale from St Dunstan-in-the-West Church London]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bust_Of_William_Tyndale_s.jpg "Sculpted Head Of William Tyndale from St Dunstan-in-the-West Church London")
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